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The ground also so generally interferes with tlie aerial forms of 

 plants that the hemispherical is more frequently given in the vegetable 

 kingdom than the spherical, especially in the humbler forms of shrubs 

 and trees and clumps. 



But these things are for the discovery of the forester and landscape 

 gardener, and I can only express a sincere wish that they may study 

 the ideas and principles of beauty I have laid before them ; and 

 endeavour in their daily avocations to carry out those principles in 

 entire harmony with nature. 



Epping Forest. 



The scheme foi- the disafforesting that part of Waltham Forest, in the 

 county of Essex, known as Epping Forest, and for the preservation and 

 management of the waste lands of Epping Forest as settled by the 

 Commissioners by virtue and in exercise of the directions and powers 

 contained in the Epping Forest Act, has been settled ^\'ithin the last few 

 days. After defining the lands subject to the scheme, it provides that the 

 forest, on the day on which the scheme shall come into operation, shall l)e 

 " disafforested," and upon such disafforestation the Queen's rights of vert 

 and venison within the forest, several forest courts, and all letters patent, 

 grants, appointments and warrants of any offices, bailiwicks, walks, and 

 lodges, and all salaries, allowances, gratuities, and fees payable or allowed 

 in respect of the same, and all burdens and restrictions arising out of the 

 forest laws or customs, as regards the forest, cease and determine. The 

 forest is henceforward to be regulated and managed in accordance with this 

 scheme by the Lord Mayor, Commonalty, and citizens of London as 

 Conservators thereof, acting in Common Council assembled. The Con- 

 servators are to appoint a committee, not exceeding twelve in number, to 

 exercise wuth the Verderers the powers and directions and to do the acts 

 which the Conservators are, by the scheme, empowered to exercise, 

 Lieutenant-Colonel George Palmer, Alderman Sir Thomas "White, the 

 present Lord Mayor, and Sir Antonio Brady, the present surviving 

 Verderers of Epping Forest, to retain the title of Verderers during their 

 lives or until resignation of the office. All rights of cutting down trees 

 and digging gravel and clay and loam, of cutting turf, common of turbary, 

 common of estovers, rights of lopping and topping and cutting underwood, 

 assignments of fuel or wood and other rights now subsisting in or upon 

 the forest, either in respect of any office or by virtue of the forest laws, or 

 of any licence, prescription, custom, or usage there are to be subject to 

 the provisions of the scheme. The rights of common, of pasture, and 

 " pannage " are to continue, and the parish vestries may nominate " reeves." 

 The Conservators are to keep the forest unenclosed, and to prevent 

 enclosures. The natural aspect of the forest and its ancient remains are 

 also to be preserved. Churches, chapels, and charitable institutions are to 

 be exempt from rent-charges. The Conservators are to have power to cut 

 and manage timber and underwood, to plant trees for shelter or ornament, 

 to maintain and dedicate roads, to build and repair lodges, to provide and 

 maintain pounds, to make rules as to the regulation of common of pasture, 

 to permit temporary commoning by drovers, and to permit sheep to 

 depasture on certain conditions as to numbers, places, and times, and to 

 allow-Rifle Corps to drill. 



